Prehistoric Cave Visits Documented With Footprint Study
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by Spain's National Research Center for Human Evolution (CENIEH), a team of researchers has been able to use digital photography and 3-D scans to study a collection of footprints discovered in the main gallery deep inside northern Spain’s Palomera Cave in 1969. The use of new technology has allowed the researchers to study the more than 1,200 footprints without damaging them. Radiocarbon dating of the remains of torches found in the gallery and along the pathways leading to it suggests when the paths were traveled, sa...
Source: archaeology.org